For people now, the name Li Xianglan is not particularly familiar to everyone, at most, it is known that the singer Jacky Cheung has a very nice slow song called "Li Xianglan", and even many people may know this song because of watching Xingye's "Domestic 007".

But when it comes to one of her famous songs, I believe everyone knows it, that is "Night Fragrance", the original song of this classic Shanghai Tang track that has been covered countless times is her --- Li Xianglan, although this song was considered to be the beautiful sound of the Japanese invaders anesthetizing the people of the occupied areas, but because of the beautiful tune, it is still widely circulated, and even more than 80 versions have been released around the world.

And Li Xianglan was extremely famous in the three eastern provinces (that is, Manchukuo) and Shanghai Tang at that time, and Zhou Xuan, Gong Qiuxia, Yao Li, Bai Guang, Bai Hong, and Wu Yingyin were collectively known as the "Seven Great Queens of Shanghai Tang". At the same time, she is also the number one acting superstar of the puppet Manchukuo, mostly as a young Chinese woman who plays the role of admiring the Japanese Imperial Army, promoting Japan's invasion of China on the screen, and praising and whitewashing the Japanese army's invasion of China, such as the most criticized humiliation of China movie "The Night of China", in which she played a beautiful Chinese girl who fanatically pursued the Japanese army and had to marry the Japanese army if she wanted to die or live. What's even more exaggerated is that she actually played Lin Zexu's daughter in "Liufang Baishi", and also played Mulan in "Mulan in the Army".

After Japan's defeat in 1945, the Nationalist Government began to search for traitors in accordance with the "Draft Regulations on the Handling of Traitor Cases", and Li Xianglan was arrested on charges of colluding with the Japanese army as a "cultural traitor" on the grounds that "as a Chinese, he made films that defiled China and contributed to Japan's policy of aggression against China." Just when Li Xianglan was executed, she suddenly revealed that she was not Chinese, her real name was Shuko Yamaguchi, Li Xianglan was her stage name, and in February 1946, her identity was confirmed and she was repatriated to Japan.

In the previous life, Tang Ning only learned about this woman's complicated life when Li Xianglan died in 2014, and in this life, Matsuda Yoshiko's informant inadvertently discovered Li Xianglan's news when investigating the traitor, which made Tang Ning a little moved, he always thought that although this woman was Japanese, she had been active in the music and film industry as a Chinese before her arrest, and many of her works hurt Chinese's feelings, and they were all whitewashing the Japanese army's invasion of China, so it was natural for her to be sentenced to the crime of traitor. shouldn't let her go because of her Japanese nationality, she didn't have this opportunity and ability in her previous life, but now she can do it but regret it.

At this time, Li Xianglan has changed back to her original name Yamaguchi Shuko, and is talking about cooperation with Toho Co., Ltd. (Japan's most influential veteran film production company, many anime movies like Robot Cat, Conan, Kanedaichi, Crayon Shin-chan, Naruto and so on are all filmed by them), but due to the overall economic downturn in Japan at the moment, the film market is very sluggish, although Li Xianglan was very famous before, but because she couldn't receive a film contract, most of her original savings were confiscated by the national government, So life is very tight.

Tang Ning led someone under the guidance of the informant, and directly swaggered into Li Xianglan's house, Li Xianglan, who was about to rest, saw the American officer break into her house, although she was extremely shocked, but she was also a figure who had seen the world, so she still asked calmly: "Officer, it's so late, what's the matter with you coming to me?" ”

Tang Ning unceremoniously picked a chair and sat down with a golden knife and said: "Let me introduce myself, I am Tony Downing, a captain and staff officer of the Allied Army, and the owner of the cola factory on the outskirts of the city. ”

Li Xianglan felt that Tang Ning was a little familiar just now, but now when she heard him say this, she suddenly remembered that the black-haired officer in front of her was indeed the owner of the cola factory, but she was not interested in Tang Ning's proposal at all, because if it was a serious invitation, how could she go straight to her house in the middle of the night to discuss. But now that the U.S. military is strong, how dare she, an outdated actress, resist, so she had to find an excuse to shirk and say: "Thank you for your appreciation, Captain, but unfortunately I have never shot an advertisement, I'm afraid it will affect the publicity effect of your factory, and I'm talking about cooperation with Toho Co., Ltd., and I'm about to sign a contract, so"

Before she could finish speaking, Tang Ning interrupted: "What are you afraid of if you haven't filmed commercials, just shoot two more times, I have the film, as for Dongbao, I asked Lieutenant Colonel Tom to say hello to them, I don't believe that Dongbao dares not to give face." "What Tang Ning said is the truth, because he was in charge of propaganda with Japan before, so he knows very well how much power the U.S. military has in this regard, a company like Dongbao that doesn't have much background, it really says that it will be blocked, and the actor can find an excuse to arrest it. Like Tang Ning said this time that he came to Li Xianglan to shoot an advertisement, it was just an excuse, with this excuse, then even if he arrested Li Xianglan and locked him up for twenty years, no one dared to find anything wrong!

Tang Ning stood up and walked around this small house, and then said: "And this room is too simple, where is it suitable for a big star like Miss Li to live, or move to me, the conditions are much better than here in all aspects!" ”

Li Xianglan is making the last struggle: "Captain, I still like to live here, I don't want to shoot this commercial, and I am now called Yamaguchi Shuzi, no longer Li Xianglan!" ”

Tang Ning snorted coldly: "Hmph! Even if you can change your name back, can you change everything you've done? You have done so many wrong things with Li Xianglan's name, thinking that if you change it to Yamaguchi Shuko, everything in the past will no longer exist? How can there be such a good thing! Besides, you think it's time for you to go if you don't want to? Don't toast, don't eat and drink, obediently follow me, do you have to let someone tie you up before you are willing? ”

PS: In the book review, someone said that Li Xianglan was actually an anti-war activist, so I hehe, even she herself admitted in court that "I deceived the Chinese, and a sense of guilt haunted my heart", and also soothed the wound with singing, can that kind of injury be soothed with singing? If she really wants to oppose the war, she will say it openly, or refuse to perform for the Japanese army, or go to comfort the Chinese army, which of these things has she done?

She is indeed Japanese, but she was filming video and audio works whitewashing the atrocities of the Japanese army as a Chinese, and the national government at that time sentenced her to a "cultural traitor", which I don't think is an exaggeration.